Fly-paper holder.



J. 0. FORKER.

FLY PAPER HOLDER.

nruonxon FILED JULY 11, 1908.

Patented Dec. 15,1908.

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JULIUS O. FORKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLY-PAPER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Application filed July 11, 1908. Serial No. 443,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs O. FORKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fly-Pa er Holder, of which the following is a full, 0 ear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in holders, cases or guards adapted to receive a sheet of adhesive fly paper and hold the same in place, as well as to protect it from injury by objects placed thereon.

The special object of my invention is to provide a base which may be used alone, for holding a sheet of fly paper and preventing the adhesive materlal from flowing therefrom, or which may be used in conjunction with a cage or casing of coarsely woven wire, which latter protects the paper from above. The cage or protecting member is so constructed that when detached from the base it may flatten out to occupy the minimum space.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the same.

The specific form of device illustrated in the accompanying drawings is formed of two separable members, one comprising a base and the other a cage or protector. The base is formed of a rectangular piece of sheet metal 1.0 having the four edges thereof turned upwardly and inwardly to form end flanges 11 and side flanges 12. The base is of slightly greater size than the ordinary sheet of fly paper, and the free edges of the flanges are spaced from the bottom of the base a sufliclent distance to permit the sheet of fly paper 13 to be inserted therebeneath. The cage or protector is formed of a sheet of wire netting 14 of a length substantially e ual to the length of the base inside of the end anges 11, but it is of considerably greater width.

The netting is of very coarse mesh, so that flies or other insects may very readily ass therethrough to the sheet of paper held by the base, but the netting is of suflicient I rigidity to support any light object which might be accidentally placed thereon, and serves to protect the paper against such object. The netting is provided with two strips of spring steel 15 extending along the ends thereof, said stri s being secured to the nettin in any suitab e manner. The strips norma 1v tend to straighten so that the netting will lie in a single plane, and during shipment the netting and the strips may be removed from the base and laid flat thereon. In using the cage or protector, the strips 15 are bent and their ends held between the flanges 12, substantially as illustrated in Fig. 1. The flanges hold the strips in their bent position and hold the netting in a curved or semi-cylindrical form. The resiliency of the strips holds them in such firm engagement wit the flanges 12 that the entire device may be icked up by the cage and may, if desired, e suspended from a chandelier or other overhead support.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A holder for fly paper, comprising a base for supporting the fly paper, and a detachable woven wire cage or protector of curved form and having its edges in resilient engagement with said base.

2-. A holder of the character described, com rising a sheet metal base having upwardly and inwardly extending side flanges, and a cage or protector detachable from said base and having a resilient engagement with said flanges.

3. In combination, a base adapted to support a sheet of fly paper, and a cage or protector formed of a sheet of woven wire, and strips of spring metal secured thereto transversely thereo and having their ends in detachable engagement with said base.

4. In combination, a base adapted to hold a sheet of fly paper, and a detachable cage or protector formed of a sheet of woven Wire reinforced at its 0 posite ends by strips of spring metal, said protector normally tendingl to assume a flat form but held in semicy 'ndrical form by the engagement of the ends of said strip with said base.

5. In combination, a holder formed of sheet metal and having upwardly and inwardly extending side flanges, and a cage or protector formed of a sheet of woven Wire, and strips of spring metal secured thereto adjacent the ends thereof, said cage or protector name to this specification in the presence of being curved to semi-cylindrical form and held two subscribing witnesses.

in such form by the en agement of the sides of said Woven wire and the ends of said spring JULIUS FORKER' 5 metal strips with said side flanges of said Witnesses:

base. MANSFIELD HUNT,

In testimony whereof I have signed my i RICHARD J. FORKER. 

